Friday, 27 January 2017

Me again! Two posts today, both featuring Birthday Cards and Both using Bears…..what are the chances of that? Lol!

As most of you know I love love love colouring so I’m thrilled to be joining in with the Colour Crazy Girls and this week it’s challenge number 3. We are being sponsored this week by Pickled Potpourri and I got to work with Birthday Bear:

Saturday, 21 January 2017

Morning all. It’s the weekend, woohoo! Later on, after the children’s swimming lessons, we will be off to visit the in-laws to celebrate my Father-in-laws Birthday. But first I thought I would pop on and tell you about the new challenge at A Gem of a Challenge.

This week it’s the Pinks turn to host the challenge and we have a fabulous theme of ‘Hearts or Flowers’. I’m getting a few Valentine’s card made and this Ozzie with Heart was perfect for one.

Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Afternoon! I’m waiting for some paint to dry upstairs (that’s my excuse) so I thought I would take 5 minutes break and do a quick blog post to share the Birthday card I made for my little Princess who turned 4 on Saturday.

This card uses a wonderful freebie given away during Kit & Clowders Advent Calendar. I thought it would be perfect for my little Frozen fan.This is Brooke as Anna from Stamp Anniething:

As I said Miss 4 is a massive Frozen fan so I’ve stuck with near enough the proper colours, although I forgot the icy white stripe in her hair

I think these stamps are so adorable and I’ve already got my heart set on a few more.

Saturday, 7 January 2017

Me again and this time I’m here to share a little Polkadoodles loveliness.

And I’ve been using the new paper pads, stamps and dies that were shown on Create & Craft a few weeks back and are available to pre-order now in the Polkadoodles store - New - Added in December

A nice simple card using some DP stamped with one of the flourishes and the sentiment. For the butter fly I die cut it twice for dimension. The bottom one is cute from pink patterned paper and left plain and the top one is die cut from the same paper but stamped with a water based ink and the coloured pulled across with a water brush.

Wednesday, 4 January 2017

Morning All! I have a little bit of news to share. For the last few months I have been a Guest on the Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge Blogand was absolutely thrilled to be asked to stay on as part of their new ‘New Release’ Team.

October

Another month where Mr Mojo was running at 110%. There were quite a few cards I could have picked but this one stood out as I was so pleased with how the hair turned out. This is Aurora Prayer from The East Wind :

November

One of the few personalised Christmas cards I made this year was for my Mum and Dad and used this fabulous image Chilly in Love from Pink Gem Designs. This is my favourite make from November:

December

In a break from all the Christmas cards I coloured up some images that Nikky from Polkadoodles drew depicting the older lady….actually Old Bags…lol. This one is Revolting Kiss and is one of my favourite pieces of colouring for the year:

If you have done your own round review of last year please let me know in the comments as I would love to pop by and take a look.

Monday, 2 January 2017

Evening all! We have taken today to chill out and get a few things ready for back to work, school and routine tomorrow. So I thought I would pop on and do a quick review of my favourite cards from 2016.

Today I’m going to share January to June and so the post isn’t too picture heavy I will share July to December tomorrow!

January

Straight into the new year is always a busy month for Birthday cards for me, but this thank you card using Shy Violet from Tiddly Inks was my favourite make of the month:

February

New Arrivals are probably my favourite (other than Christmas) occasion to make for and this very pink New Baby card was my favourite make of the month. It uses the Wavy Baby stamp set from LC Designs:

March

I remember falling in love with this paper pad when I saw it in the Range and I loved it even more paired with this wonderful All Dressed Up image, Gorgeous Bride:

April

Needs a post all by itself! Mr Mojo was definitely alive and kicking and I didn’t think I’d be able to choose a favourite. However, I spotted this Pink Gem DesignsPirate Barclay card and remembered feeling so chuffed as I coloured it all with PrismaColor pencils (not my usual Copics):

May

I had a little bit of a clean and simple thing going on in May and this Christmas card using It’s Snowing from All Dressed Up was this months favourite, possibly because I love love love red and blue as a colour combo:

About Me

I am married to Daniel and I am a full time mum to my gorgeous little boy Elliot and newborn baby Emily born January 2013. I have been a crafter without really knowing it since I was a little girl, but have expanded my talents from those early days of finger painting and playing with glitter. My main passion is card making using rubber stamps but will try my hand at most crafts. I was lucky enough to be named Papercraft Essentials Magazines 'Papercrafter of the Year 2012.